The 60-day truce agreed between Israel and Lebanon is particularly fragile after the Israeli military on Monday launched its biggest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since the truce began last week.

At least 11 people were killed by Israeli shelling after Hezbollah fired missiles as a warning of Israeli ceasefire violations.

This was the first time Hezbollah targeted Israeli forces since the ceasefire took effect.

Lebanon’s health ministry said in turn that an Israeli airstrike in the southern village of Haris killed five people and wounded two more, while another airstrike in the village of Tallousa killed four and also wounded two.

The Israeli army carried out a series of airstrikes late Monday against what it said were Hezbollah fighters, infrastructure and rocket launchers across Lebanon in response to Hezbollah firing two missiles at Mount Dov — a disputed area controlled by Israel known as Shebaa Farms in Lebanon, where the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Israel meet. Israel said the projectiles landed in open areas and no injuries were reported.

Hezbollah it said in a statement that it fired at an Israeli military position in the area as a “defensive and warning response” following Israel’s “repeated violations” of the ceasefire agreement. It also said that complaints to mediators responsible for monitoring the ceasefire “have been futile in stopping these violations”.

Before the Hezbollah missiles, the Israelis carried out at least four airstrikes and a barrage of fire in southern Lebanon, including a drone strike that killed one person, according to Lebanese state media. Another attack killed a corporal in the Lebanese security services.

Israel has said its strikes are in response to unspecified violations by Hezbollah and that under the cease-fire agreement it reserves the right to retaliate.

The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, accused Israel of violating the ceasefire more than 50 times in recent days by launching airstrikes, demolishing homes near the border and violating Lebanese airspace.

“RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”

At the same time, the US president-elect Donald Trump called for the immediate release of Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. In a post on his Truth Social website, Trump called on Palestinian militants to release all 100 or so Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, about two-thirds of whom are believed to be alive.

“Those responsible will be hit harder than anyone has hit in the long and great History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on Trump’s post, although President Isaac Herzog welcomed it.